Old Weird Ward
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004
- - - - - Comparing Bush to Hitler, Again - - - - -
From June 30, 1960, to December 17, 2003, I was a resident of California. First in Los Angeles, then a detour to San Diego (service in the US Navy), then, in 1975, to San Jose.
In the 28 years that I lived in the Bay Area, we used to poke fun at the city of Berkely, AKA "The People's Republic of Berzerkly". And some of the denizens of San Francisco were something to marvel at. Even the San Francisco newspaper was giggled at, the San Franciso "Comical".
So, I'm used to the so-called "Liberal" viewpoint espoused by columnists in California in general, and the Bay Area in particular.
But even this opinion column, by Harley Sorensen, is just a little bit much, don't you think? I mean, where is Bush's Ernst Rohm? Bush's Himmler? Where are the Brownshirts? Where is Kristalnacht in Amerika? Where is the government-sponsored vilification of the [name of sub-group here]? Where is the call for Lebensraum?
And, Mr. Sorensen, we damned well know who planned and carried out the attacks of 11 September 2001, don't we?
In short, Sorensen is more full of "stuff" than a Christmas turkey.
See it HERE.
A quote from the column:
In 1933, the Reichstag, Germany's parliament building, was burned to the ground. Nobody knows for sure who set the fire. The Nazis blamed communists. "This incident prompted Hitler[,then Germany's chancellor,] to convince [German President Paul von] Hindenburg to issue a Decree for the Protection of People and State that granted Nazis sweeping power to deal with the so-called emergency."
The Reichstag fire parallels the Sept. 11 attacks here, and Hindenburg's decree parallels our USA Patriot Act.
Soon after Hitler took power, the concentration camp at Dachau was created and "the Nazis began arresting Communists, Socialists and labor leaders ... . Parliamentary democracy ended with the Reichstag passage of the Enabling Act, which allowed the government to issue laws without the Reichstag."
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